Guillaume Le Roy - an abstract composition painted "layer upon layer" in 1987 - very large!

• Title: abstract composition with square
• Year: 1987
• Dimensions: 80 x 110 cm
• Signed: bottom left
• Material/medium: oil paint, watercolor, chalk, etc.
• Framed: NO
• Condition: very good
  

Guillaume Le Roy was a Dutch graphic artist, etcher, lithographer, wood engraver, pen draftsman, textile artist, and teacher at the academy in Kampen. Guillaume Le Roy lived and worked in Amsterdam. Guillaume Le Roy's prints are abstract. Although he experienced a multicolored period in the 1960s and 1970s, the colors black, gray, and white always remained the most important to him. Although abstract, Le Roy produced woodcuts and etchings on several occasions based on well-known literary poems, such as *De zangen van Maldoror* by Comte de Lautrémont (1971–1981), *De Baal Sjem en de tovenaar*, a Chassidic tale adapted by Martin Buber (1975), *Zwarte aarde* by Osip Mandelstam (1976), *Abel en Caïn* by Baudelaire, *Drie gedichten* by Bert Schierbeek (1984), and *Zomeravond* by Maurits Mok (1988). Copies of *The Baal Shem and the Sorcerer*, *Black Earth*, *Abel and Cain*, and *Summer Evening* are held in the Royal Library in The Hague. The first edition is also held in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam and the Van Bommel van Dam Museum in Venlo. Other works are included in the collections of the Museum of the Book in The Hague, the Dordrecht Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. “…the unparalleled master of relief printing in forms through which light seeps” (Mathilde Visser, 1975). “a king among printmakers” (Hans Redeker, 1980), “…a true printmaker, devoted to the technique of the carving knife and corrosive acids. The elementary nature of that technique speaks directly from his work” (Jan Hendrik Bakker, 1992), “…(his development) as a printmaker is one towards ever greater simplification and restraint” (Erik Slagter, 2001)